Florida · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Florida

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in Florida, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 286,100 people in Florida across roughly 14,102 establishments, with average annual pay of $54,920.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Florida grew 48.6% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in Florida as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.48). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 286,100. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Florida are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 286,100Employment, 2025
  • 14,102Establishments
  • $54,920Avg. annual pay
  • 2.9%Share of Florida jobs
  • 1.48Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Florida, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 170,100 to 286,100.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 170,100; 2005 177,500; 2006 182,200; 2007 189,800; 2008 194,700; 2009 191,300; 2010 191,400; 2011 197,500; 2012 202,800; 2013 205,000; 2014 215,800; 2015 224,300; 2016 231,300; 2017 236,000; 2018 241,300; 2019 249,200; 2020 192,500; 2021 212,200; 2022 245,500; 2023 263,800; 2024 274,600; 2025 286,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025286,13414,102$54,922 4.2%pub.
2024274,63913,767$52,344 4.1%pub.
2023263,81413,358$50,297 7.4%pub.
2022245,53212,772$48,132 15.7%pub.
2021212,21612,357$45,366 10.2%pub.
2020192,54611,764$44,879 22.7%est. · 1.00
2019249,17711,286$39,847 3.3%est. · 1.00
2018241,33310,827$39,016 2.2%pub.
2017236,04210,488$37,826 2.1%pub.
2016231,27610,322$36,780 3.1%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries48,54317.0%1.29pub.
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions11,5734.0%0.70pub.
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries226,01779.0%1.62pub.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Florida, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for arts, entertainment, and recreation in Florida. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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